Which statement best describes a holistic-interactional approach ...

[Deast7027]

Which statement best describes a holistic-interactional approach to nursing care for clients with mental disorders?
 
  1. Clients with psychotic symptoms rarely indicate an interest in creative activities.
  2. Medication is the only treatment required to manage affective symptoms for clients with mood disorders.
  3. Developing comfortable relationships with clinicians is the major factor in maintaining mental health.
  4. I always try to understand the complex relationship between a client's psychobiologic health and expressions of self-esteem.

Question 2

The nurse is working with a mentally ill client who has just recently been diagnosed with HIV. The client lost her job and has been living in different shelters each night.
 
  Which of the following is a priority goal for this client? Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. Refer to the client to another physician for medication management
  2. Maintain access to support services as needed
  3. Avoid exposure to infectious diseases
  4. Get adequate amounts of rest
  5. Maintain nutritional requirements

[amandanbreshears]

Answer to Question 1

4
Rationale: Healing and caring must be approached in a holistic manner. With all disorders, the holistic-interactional approach to nursing must include an understanding of both biological and psychological interventions. Psychosis does not negate the creative attributes of individuals, and they are appropriately included as part of a holistic approach to nursing care. Comfort is not the primary goal of therapeutic clinical relationships. Therapeutic relationships do not replace familial and social relationships in a holistic-interactional approach.

Answer to Question 2

2,3,4,5
Rationale: An increasingly critical problem is the lack of decent, appropriate housing for the growing number of people with HIV disease. HIV disease is disproportionately prevalent among individuals already at the economic edge and those who are targets of discrimination in housing and medical care: people of color, homosexuals, injection drug users, and homeless and runaway youth. Although most people with an impaired immune system can live independently, they require a safe environment that helps them avoid exposure to infectious diseases, get adequate rest, meet their special nutritional needs, and have access to support services and home help when necessary. There is no evidence that the client would need a referral to another physician for medication management.

[Deast7027]

Correct answers!

[amandanbreshears]

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